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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1907 



The Entrance Front Has a Slightly Pedimented Center, with a Porch Supported by 



Roman Doric Columns 



red curtains. The wall on the stairs is paneled in small 

 squares, and the upper hall is walled in yellow. 



On the left of the hall is the library, which occupies the 

 whole of this end of the house and has windows on three 

 sides. It has a paneled wood wainscot identical with that of 

 the hall, as is all the woodwork on this floor. The upper 

 walls are covered with old Italian red and gold damask, dat- 

 ing, probably, from the sixteenth century. There are numer- 

 ous Oriental rugs on the hardwood floor, and the ceiling is 

 in plain white. The wood mantel has brick facings, and 

 above it is an old carved picture frame containing an An- 

 nunciation undoubtedly of the period of Perugino. The fire- 

 place has brass andirons, and before it is a vast red velvet 

 davenport of astonishing comfortness. The windows on each 

 side of the fireplace look onto the loggia, which overlooks the 

 formal garden. The window curtains are of dull red velvet. 

 The room is almost entirely surrounded with low bookcases, 

 and the furnishings include a quantity of valuable and inter- 

 esting bric-a-brac. 



The dining-room is on the right of the hall and in the op- 

 posite side of the house. It has a paneled wood wainscot and 



cornice, with a broad band or 

 frieze of green silk. The ceil- 

 ing is of rough white plaster. 

 The fireplace is faced and 

 lined with red brick. The 

 mahogany chairs are covered 

 with tapestry. The most in- 

 teresting piece of furniture in 

 the room is unquestionably 

 the sideboard, made from the 

 panels of two carved Brit- 

 tany beds, obtained by Mr. 

 Clark abroad. The panels 

 inclosing the lower part were 

 taken from one bed, while the 

 woodwork of the upper came' 

 from another. Both beds be- 

 long to somewhat different 

 periods in date, the difference 

 in time having been estimated 

 by some experts as to be as 

 much as a hundred years. As 

 now utilized, however, they 

 constitute an harmonious and 

 beautiful article of furniture. 



The morning-room opens 

 from the dining-room. The 

 woodwork throughout is 

 painted white. It is a small 

 apartment with a wood wain- 

 scot and upper walls of yel- 

 low silk. One side is wholly 

 paneled and shelved, forming 

 a built-in desk. The window 

 has striped curtains, and the 

 coverings of the furniture 

 are, for the most part, white, 

 pink, and yellow. 



In a place as large as 

 "North Farm" it would be 

 strange were there not sev- 

 eral ways of getting to its 

 various parts. The flower 

 garden may be entered 

 through a window in the li- 

 brary, but it may be more 

 convenient to enter it through 

 the little wooden gate let 

 into the brick wall which 

 bounds its outer face, and which adjoins the entrance front 

 of the house. 



It is a garden of goodly size, laid out and adorned with 

 rare taste. To the left, as one enters by the gate, is a brick 

 wall, before which is a pergola extending to the full depth 

 of the garden. The innermost supports are brick piers, but 

 the outermost, toward the garden, are marble columns, 

 brought from Verona and Venice; old columns with old cap- 

 itals, that neither fit nor belong to the columns they surmount, 

 but which, in the good old Italian style, are used as pieces of 

 ornamental carving. 



Exactly in the center of the garden Is a delicious little foun- 

 tain, rising from a circular pool. And then the whole of the 

 remaining space is marked off in flower beds in formal pat- 

 tern, edged with low borders of box, and filled, almost to 

 bursting, with flowers and plants, so arranged and grouped 

 as to give constant successions of bloom and constant harmony 

 of flowers. On the far side, opposite the loggia, the distant 

 ground rises naturally, with lofty trees, and a final bounding 

 wall, emphasized In the center by a couple of columns and a 

 heightening of the inclosed wall. On the remaining side the 



